Type mounting structure



Feb. 17, 1942. s. HOUK TYPE-MOUNTING STRUCTURE Filed June 11, 1940 n I 9 I r 1 I I INVENTOR. G'saqs: Haux.

BY ATTO R N EYS.

Patented Feb. 17, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,273,267 TYPE MOUNTING STRUCTURE George Houk, Dayton, Ohio, assignor tollayton Tool and Engineering Company, a corporation of Delaware Application June 11, 1940,; Serial No. 339,923

7 Claims.

usually has a dovetail end, providing lateral grooveswhereby the type is held in the holders and in the magazines, and whereby itis assembled in set lines in chases for printing.

A familiar way of mounting such type is in-a sheet metal channel with a flanged opening, into which the dovetailed ends of the type are fed at the type forming machines with the flanges in the type grooves. The channel shaped strips are closed at the ends by bending up tongues of the channel metal, and this holds the type in place until ready for use. The operator then opens the end of the channel shaped holder, then strips the type into like channel shaped magazine sections in the type magazine of the machines which is similarly flanged to engage the type grooves. This operation leaves the type with their type faces exposed in the magazines; and the operation of the machines for setting the type is such that the selected type are forced off one at a time from the bottom of the selected magazine channels, with the type faces forward. After this, the machines operate so as to'assemble the selected type into words, etc., suitably spaced by blank type or quads. The lines of type are then inserted into a suitable chase, and are justified and ready for use in printing.

This description is not intended to be all inclusive, but to indicate in general the use of type setting machines and provision of type therefor.

My invention relates to an improved practice in holding the type characters so that they can be shipped and used in such machines, particularly. One of my objects is to provide type holders which can be filled at the type making machines, and which can be set directly into the type setting machine magazines, whereupon the holder can be removed, for re-use by the type maker. The advantages of this are obvious. It makes a simpler operation of installing the type in the proper magazine therefor, and in addition removes the chances of type, particularly those with small faces, becoming cocked or twisted in the magazine channels, requiring a very tedious correction before the machine will operate.

In the drawing I have shown a specific example of my invention, which will be described in detail. The novelty, as shown by this example, will be set forth in the appended claims to which reference is hereby made.

In the; drawing? Figure-1 is a. front elevation of my improved type; holdershowing the type retained therein.

Figure; 2 is an end elevation thereof.

Fig res 3v and 4, are sectionstaken along the lines;,33 and 4-4 respectively of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is aside elevation, with parts broken away illustrating an exemplary type magazine.

Figurefi is a section taken on line 66 of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 5 illustrating how my improved holder is employed for placing additionaltype in the magazine.

Figure 8 is a view similar to Figure '7, but with the holder removed.

Figure 9 is a fragmentary front elevation illustrating an alternative means for closing the holder.

The type used with my invention are typified by the type I, which has a dovetailed end 2, and a type face 3. The magazine of the machine in which the type is ultimately to be placed is illustrated at 4, has a groove or channeled construction which is arrangedto fit the dovetailed ends of" the type flanged at 4a, thereby holding the type faceforward so-as to be visible and come out of the bottom ofithe magazine piece by piece as they are dislodged by the mechanism H] with their type faces foremost.

My improved holder is in the form of a channel of a size to receive the heads of the type leaving the dovetailed feed exposed. The holder is made of a condensation product or other transparent plastic in the form of a channel 5 having inturned flanges 5a., of such length as is convenient for the machine to be used. Type of some one character as formed in the type making machines are delivered into the channels, with their type faces within the channels and the flanges 5a engaging in the type grooves. Thus as shown in the drawing, the type faces will be visible through the holders, and yet located within the channels thereof.

In mounting the type in the magazine, the entire stick is simply slid into the magazine, or rather the exposed dovetailed feet are slid into the magazine. The material of the holder is thin enough where it engages in the lateral grooves of the type, so that this operation is not impeded. Thereupon the operator holds the type down with a tool, lead pencil or the like, and slides the holder up and off, as illustrated. The

holder will be of a length to accommodate the length of whatever type setter magazine it is to be used for.

To hold the type in the holder, the sides of the channel or the base thereof is indented from the outside sufliciently for the type to remain in the holder unless positively discharged therefrom by pushing upon it. This is illustrated at 6, 6 in the drawing. Other modes of closing the ends of the holder as by a tape 1 could be adopted which require removal before the type is inserted into the magazine. The holder will be tight enough over the head of the type to hold it frictionally without the closure of the ends of the channel in any Way at least sufiiciently for ready installation of the stick of type into a magazine without difficulty. I believe that for convenience in shipping some indentation or provision of a closing clip for the ends of the channelshaped holder, is an advantage.

The use of the new holder permits of installation of the type therein, just as it is done now in the metal channels but in a reverse direction. The type faces show through because the material of the holder is transparent. The magazines hold the feet of the type so as to show the type faces to the operator, as well as deliver the type face first. This permits the holder to be used in mounting the type in the magazine and then removed by simple stripping action, still leaving the type properly oriented, and without requiring that the holder itself be thrust into the magazine channel, since these are arranged to take the feet of the type.

The material of the holder can be flexible and non-fragile as well as transparent, this being a set of characteristics readily obtained in available plastics.

To a certain degree a holder which is not transparent will embody the advantages of my invention, i. e., the kind of the type that is in the holder will have to be marked in some way because it will not be visible.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A type holder formed of transparent material having a flanged channel shape designed to snugly receive the heads alone of dovetailed footed type, for the purpose described.

21. A type holder formed of transparent material having a flanged channel shape designed to snugly receive the heads alone of dovetailed footed type, said holder being of a length to hold a charge of type for a type setter magazine channel.

3. A type holder formed of transparent material having a flanged channel shape designed to snugly receive the heads alone of dovetailed footed type, said material being a flexible nonfragile plastic.

4. A type holder formed of transparent material having a flanged channel shape designed to receive the heads of dovetailed footed type with the face of the type in engagement with the channel, said material being a flexible nonfragile plastic of suflicient thinness to permit the flanges of a magazine channel to engage in the grooves in the dovetailed type in the presence of the inturned flanges of the channel.

5. A type holder formed of transparent material having a flanged channel shape designed to receive the heads of dovetailed footed type with the face of the type in engagement with the channel, said material being a flexible nonfragile plastic of sufficient thinness to permit the flanges of a magazine channel to engage in the grooves in the dovetailed type in the presence of the inturned flanges of the channel, and the holder being of the length equal to or less than that of a magazine channel into which the type is to be inserted.

6. A type holder formed of material having a flanged channel shape designed to receive the heads of dovetailed footed type with the face of the type in engagement with the channel, said material being a flexible nonfragile plastic of suflicient thinness to permit the flanges of a magazine channel to engage in the grooves in the dovetailed type in the presence of the inturned flanges of the channel.

'7. A type holder having a channel shape designed to receive the heads of laterally grooved type with flanges to extend into said grooves and with the face of the type in engagement with the channel, said flanges being of sufficient thinness to engage in the grooves of the type in the presence of the flanges of a magazine channel in which the type is to be mounted.

GEORGE HOUK. 

